The Daily Nebraskan
Monday, October 2, 1961
Page 2
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EDITORIAL OPINION
Tassel Homecoming Push
Could Waste Student Time
With Homecoming weekend a little over a month
awey and the Kosmet Klub fall review less than two
weeks away, most students are nearly bogged down s
with studies for the first round of exams and work for
these two traditional dates. I
It would teem we as students have plenty to do
for the .remainder of the semester. However, we find
a campus group is trying to revive a dead horse which
would call for even more of an overload on the already
too-busy student calendar.
Specifically we are speaking of the Tassels who are
blindly trying to bring the Homecoming morning parade
- back again with out a sensible reason. Their only cry
seems to be that "it's traditional." '.
Since such a parade is completely up to the stu
dents it would seem it is their decision as to whether or
not such a parade should be held. Last year, after con
siderable questioning, the overwhelming campus vote
was against the parade doe to a lack of time.
We go along with the logic of the majority of the
students last year. Why not devote our time to attractive
and worthwhile homecoming displays instead of split
ting our limited time between the displays, the parade
and a carnival yes, a carnival.
This spirited female group has not stopped at
pounding away at a dead Issue. We are bow asked
what we thick about a series of carnival-type side
shows to be operated la conjunction with the displays.
The argument in this case is the possibility of financial
gain to each organization who participates plus the en
tertainment rendered to the public.
We feel someone should wake up and draw the line.
What is the purpose of staging a parade that will flop
and be criticized in that light? By the same token, are
we students obliged to entertain the public by operat
ing side shows? Do these additional time-consumers
warrant our efforts at this busy time of the year?
We strongly urge the Tassels to drop the parade
Idea for their own good antes they can insure a good
parade with unified student support. As for the carnival,
why not contact Kingling Bros, and bring the campus
thrmm vfa du ard entertain as alL
Staff Viewf
Chip
The plow cut buffalo
grass sod away from the
fertile ground below the
grass would be his home
end the soil would be his
life. No one knows for sure
what was to be his sta
mina and spirit. What was to
guide his land and family
past grasshoppers depres
sion, dust, floods. Whatever
it was spirit, stamina or
perhaps even stupidness,
the grandfather must have
passed to the father and he
in turn to his son.
The father and son have
stOl had trouble with lack
f raia, with 1P ad with
worms, but they have had
the surplus sbstacle.
The farmer has had his
land cut into, hi quota jug
gled, but he has become so
efficient that anything be
tries to do seems to blos
som out into surplus.
Now for fiie blame r tie
congratulations. Once po
a time whea dost and snow
and grasshoppers caused aa
nndse amount ef distress to
the man ef the toO. The
University ef Nebraska
bought 229 acres of lasd for
the development ef a "mo
ld farm." The one half
section was located where
the Af campus now Is. .
It was the purpose of the
"model farm" to "discover
the new agricultural truth,
rather than exhibit what is
old," according to the Pro
fessor of Agriculture, Sam
uel R. Thompson.
Since that time research
experimentation and discov
ery have developed farm
ing into the more efficient
agrarian industry in the
world. When win this prog
ress stop? Sometime in the
future surely agriculture will
have the tallest corn, the
biggest headed wheat, the
most waier and the fewest '
bugs . that it can possibly
have. Then the populatioa
of the United States will be
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Harong again.
Two weeks ago the Board
of Regents approved the hope of order and peace in
purchase of 8,200 acres of that geographical expres
the Mead Ordinance Plant g skm called the Congo,
to construct an "agricul-
tural field laboratory". A I hPe Dever
large space gives the re- great, even with the UN
searchers on the Ag cam-1 forces present; but ther
pus a chance to escape wa( Nme bope, always pr
from the one cow herd and s ... . , r
the two acre grain plot It dkUi 08 tte -opens
a whole new dimen- e assamptioa that the
turn to the teaching and re- I UN "presence" would have
search of the University. to be present for years to
Eighty-sevea years ag eome. No one wanted to ad
whea the University bought f mlt thii. No one wants to
the 228 acres from Moses i admit now that the task ef
M. Culver It was easily ac- 1 the UN force ia the Congo
cesstbie to the Uislvmity. I has reaUy jost begun, unless
It was large enough for any 1 of course, the borne govera
research Professor Thomp- I meats ef those troops pull
sea could visualize. It would them out fa disgust, or the
be self staining as far as I financing breaks down, or
fiances were concerned. Be- g paralysis on me East tuver
sides, It was far enough leaves them without diree
away from Lincoln to pre- I tioa.
vide aa agricultural atmos-1 Any one loathes to cast
Phere- the slightest shadow
Mead is probaWy closer over the last bold enterprise
to the University than the 0f the fine gentleman who
Culver land was in 1874 con- died at Ndola. He was car
sidering transportation im- rying out his mandate in
provements. Thirteen sec- g Katanga as he interpreted
tions of land seems to be 1 both it and the necessities
enough to attempt large 0f the place and the hour,
scale research. The Mead But the uneasy feeling per
land is expected to almost g gists that in this effort to
pay its own way. bring Katanga into line
The mala difference is the there was, somewhere, a
size. Mead Is approximately g breakdown of wisdom and
times ts large as that patience. I do not believe it
first purchase. i possible that any Katanga
Elevator builders don't go e Jeadenhip, Tshombe's or
into mourning yet T h e g another's, will or can tame
farmers may still be able ly mit to incorporation
to overcome government 1 t unitary state involving
controls and keep your ce- I 8haring of control over
meet men and tin handlers tribal bounty, the rich
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Did Hope of Order, Peace in Congo
Die over Ndola mth Hammarskjold?
By Erie Sevareid
If the principle of an in-
ternational civil service,
I answerable to no national
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else GiecL as
iwell all
who are blood enemies and
1 whose leaders are even less
H competent Now,
s all the wounds and
with
bitter-
f ness, it becomes less likely
than ever.
1 Oar bland innocence about
i Africa reaches breath tak
a ing proportions at times.
1 Why do we assume t ha t
tribal loyaltles-to-the-I
death, hardening for a mil-
lenium, can be readjusted
j. - few ghoit VCarS. eSDe-
cially where the educational
g process hardly exists?
I Why did the UN permit
itself to send an Indian pro-
consul and Indian troops to
i a part of the world where
1 the Indian, in so many
places, is loathed and de
I spised by the black man?
I Why do we think that it
is the presence of the white
mercenaries, toxic aa ele
1 ment as this may be, that
I was responsible for the re-
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sistance of the Katanga
tribes to the "central" gov
ernment? Why do we per
sist in thinking that Tshom
be resists his blood enemies
only because of the Belgian
influence that remains?
The profound truths of
tribalism in the Congo give
no warrant for such easy,
self-serving assumptions.
They give more warrant for
a conclusion that national
ism in that part of the world
chiefly exists in the imagi
nation of the white man, the
white man who lives and
reads at a comfortable dis
tance. A politically unified Con
go was never ordained by
God or the Congolese peo
ple. It is hard to believe it
can hold together, since no
one tribe is dominant there,
short of semi-permanent
foreign intervention, by the
UN or otherwise, except
possibly under one condi
ITS EASY! Just pick
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only students on this campus
ARE
FIRST CONTEST
All you have to do is clip the coupon, pick the
winners and predict the scores then figure out
how you're going to spend that hundred bucks!
Only'ViCEROYiS Got It...
At Both Ends!
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Only Viceroy's got the
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material that's pure
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ation of new tribal states
within it. Obviously ia
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ated by its own people if
stability is t xtt and the
rest are to share in its eco
nomic bounty.
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which can uncoil again with
frightening force at any mo-
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Readers Balance
Democrats' Score
Dear Mr. Norm Beatty,
I read with interest your
recent editorial "M any
Convocations Fine: Where
Are the Democrats?" It
really heartened and
: warmed my soul to see so
many prominent Republi
cans (fine people) either
coming or at least invited
to appear on campus. This
was really great! I
thought. Well, what Repub
lican wouldn't be gladened
by a score of 4 to 0 over
the Democrats?
But.then I began to think
and to look up a few facts.
Before I knew it I h a.d
rounded up three and pos
sibly four rather prominent
Democrats who, by gosh,
had appeared on c a m p u s
and, by the way, had spo
ken at a convocation. Sen
ator Douglas, the senior
senator from Illinois was
the first who came to mind,
followed in close order by
none other than JFK him
self. The next personage to
whom, by the way, I had
to devote (or rather was
compelled to devote) a new
sentence is the matron of
the Democratic Party, the
spiritual mother of all Lib
erals, of whom one reviewer
wrote, "She is able to com
plete he'r flower strewn
march unpricked by the
thorns of reason" Mrs.
F. D. Roosevelt
Thus the score stood 4 to
three still our favor and
yet surely Vice-President
Johnson's stop on campus
and speech in the Union last
year is worth half a run.
The score is 4 to 3 now.
But I'm afraid IU have
to deduct two runs from our
score because V. P. Nixon
and Senator Morton didn't
speak at campus convoca
tions. Alas! The score is now
3 to 2 in Iavor of the
Young Democrats.
Now of course I must
agree with you Mr. Beatty
but why not change your
editorial to read: '"Many
Convocations Fine; Where
are the Republicans?"
Yours truly.
Bill Buckley
P.S. That fourth possible
democrat was J a s 1 1 c e
Douglas, a political neutral
at the moment, who spoke
at last year's convocation.
To the Editor:
Can't resist a little jab
about Tuesday's "Equal
Time" editorial. The mem--ory
of the noble editor is
somewhat short. In the last
four years, University or
ganizations have sponsored
Malt tlx N'rbnmkma
TO ALL STUDENTS OF
UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA
CAN YOU USE A HUNDRED BUCKS?
That's what you can win fn every one of
predict the scores and
KR ARE ALL THE PRIZES
YOU CAN WIN I
PRIZE
POIZE'
PRIZE
Viceroy College Football
CONTEST HO. 1
are my predictions for next Saturday!
SCORE WIN
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Contett onen ONLY TO CTUrFNT ivn
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before midnight. Oct 4. tot Viceroy, Box
such speakers as Lyndon
Johnson, Bobby Kennedy,
Eleanor Roosevelt, Senator
Paul Douglas, Justice Wil
liam 0. Douglas, Gov. Ralph
Brooks, Gov. Frank Morri
son (that was last Wednes
day) and of course Jack
Kennedy (not once but
twice!).
During this time the Re
publicans had Dick Nixon at
state party function. For
that they had to rent the
hall the Demos got free for
their boys.
When the noble editor
complains that the Demos
should have an equal say
on the convocation p 1 a t
forms of the University I'm
all for him. But he ought
to let the Republicans catch
up first.
Publius
(Editor's note: We quite
agree that we have seen
many fine Democrats on our
campus over the recent
past including both our pres
ent President and vice pres
ident. However, the editorial
"Many Convocations Fine;
Where are Democrats," was
referring to the convocation
program for the c n r r e n t
school year since we live in
today and not in the past.)
President Explains
Panhellenic Position
Dear Captive,
Your letter to the Rag
was delightful in its poetic
content; but what were you
trying to say and to whom
were you trying to say it?
The organization to whom
you address your "BLAST"
happens to be the govern
ing body of sororities whose
main objective is to pro
mote successful Panhellenic
Relations on the campus. It
does not formulate the re
strictions of hours placed
upon "the girls yon were
graduated with from high
school."
However, Panhellanic
women support A.W.S. rul
ings; and needless to say,
it is well that we do if the
girls over 21 are as mature
as you. Some one has set
the standards in our culture:
and as you have displayed
your inadequacy of mature
reasoning, it is well that
you are a reluctant cap
tive! Nancy McGath
Panhellanic Pres.
Graduate Question
Students' Spirit
Dear Sir,
As a Nebraska University
alumnus, may I say your
our student spirit at foot
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